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Ringfort - rath

Ballyanrahan East, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballyanrahan East, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballyanrahan East
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1923)
Coordinates
52.59802, -8.71218
SMR number
LI012-089----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture 150m N of the Main Street in Patrickswell, that marks the townland boundary with Attyflin. Depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped area defined by a bank, with the interior planted with trees. The 1897 OS 25-inch map depicts the monument as a raised roughly circular-shaped area (approx. int. diam. 28m, approx. ext. diam. 45m) enclosed by a bank from S through W to N and a field boundary from N through W to S. An external fosse is depicted from the SW through W to N and intersects a field boundary in S. Outline of tree-covered monument visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 14/02/2020 intersected by field boundaries at S and E.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date upload: 22 June 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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